Profile of your NEW Vice President

BBC ^ | Jan 20 | BBC

[RandFan]

By any measure, JD Vance, 40, has had a meteoric rise. In a matter of three years, he has gone from a longshot run for the Senate, to becoming the third youngest vice-president in American history.

At his side every step of the way has been his "spirit guide", as he calls her - wife, Usha.

At Yale Law School the pair were friends at first. Though they shared a reading group and social circle, their backgrounds could not have been more different.

Usha Vance, the 39-year-old daughter of Indian immigrants, grew up in the San Diego suburbs before attending Yale for both her undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Her husband was raised in Middleton, Ohio, born to a family with roots in the impoverished Appalachians of eastern Kentucky.

Their contrasting upbringings is what attracted them to each other, Charles Tyler, a Yale classmate and friend of the couple, told the BBC.

"They were always this match of very dissimilar people," he said.

In his bestselling 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, JD Vance recounted how his wife helped him adjust to life at the top law college.

"I have never felt out of place in my entire life," he wrote. "But I did at Yale."

[kelly4c]

She presented herself well. Seems very likable.

[rxh4n1]

I’ve complained to the mods about the “Scratch a Russian, find a Mongol” posts. As if a Mongol is some kind of inferior person. Those racist posters are still here so nothing was done.